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Guantanamo: Pictures from Home. Questions of Justice.
 The exhibit, Guantanamo: Pictures from Home. Questions of Justice. portrays 32 detainees and their experiences in Guantanamo through 88 previously unseen photographs and short video work gathered by the project creator and artist Margot Herster. The stories and images portray detainees from Yemen, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain. Photographs are accompanied by narratives from the detainees’ attorney’s, and an audio installation titled Inside Guantanamo details events that take place inside the prison.
The photographs were not originally intended for public view, but rather were used as a means of generating communication between detainees and attorneys. Attorneys visited detainees’ homes abroad and brought back to the prison pictures of family members, personal belongings, friends and neighbors. These photographs became essential to building a strong relationship between the attorney’s and detainees.
Currently there are 387 detainees in Guantanamo, and many of them have spent several years in the prison in confinement without being formally charged. Lawyers began visiting the detainees and their families after the 2004 Supreme Court decision that allowed prisoners to file cases challenging their detention in U.S. courts.
The exhibit, Guantanamo: Pictures from Home. Questions of Justice. will be on view at the Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery at the University of California, Santa Cruz from September 27th to December 1st, 2007.
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Edward Burtynsky: Quarries
 The Robert Koch Gallery will host Quarries, a series of color photographs by Edward Burtynsky. For the past twenty-five years, Burtynsky has been exploring the impact of industry on the earth, showing through his photographs landscapes in transition from China, India, Spain, Portugal, Italy, the United States and Canada. Because of his dedication to environmental causes, Edward Burtynsky was awarded the TED Prize in 2004 and in 2006 was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Canada which recognizes a lifetime of outstanding achievement. You can view Quarries at the Robert Koch Gallery located at 49 Geary St. Suite#550 in San Francisco from September 29th to November 24th, 2007. For more information you can visit their website at www.kochgallery.com.
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Wonderland: Fairytale of the Soviet Monolith
 An exhibit featuring photographer Jason Eskenazi's photo essay Wonderland: Fairytale of the Soviet Monolith will open on UC Berkeley's campus September 28th, 2007. Jason spent much of the 1990's photographing the former Soviet Union and during that time was the recipient of the Alicia Patterson Foundation Grant in 1996 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1999. Wonderland: Fairytale of the Soviet Monolith, "is a photographic exploration that portrays both the reality beneath the veneer of a utopian USSR and the affirmation of hope that should never be abandoned. And like all fairy tales try to teach us: the hard lessons of self-reliance."
There will be a lecture and exhibition opening September 28th, 2007 6:00-9:00 pm located in North Gate Hall room 105, on UC Berkeley's campus. For more information you can visit http://journalism.berkeley.edu/events/.
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Visa pour l'Image Festival
 Congratulations to Kadir van Lohuizen, who was recently awarded the Visa d'or for News, the top prize at the Visa pour l'Image Festival in Perpignan, France. Recently, Kadir has been documenting conflict in Chad, Sudan and Lebanon, and in the past he has worked in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone and Angola to expose the diamond industry, tracing the traffic of diamonds from the mines to the consumer markets. For his latest project, he has been traveling to the US to document the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. For more information on Kadir van Lohuizen, you can visit his website at http://www.lohuizen.net/.
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Phil Borges' Opening Reception
The opening of Phil Borges’ exhibit Women Empowered: Inspiring Change in the Emerging World at the FiftyCrows Gallery in San Francico was a huge success. Before the reception even started, Phil had four interviews with various media groups. Over 350 people attended the event throughout the evening, and Phil signed copies of his books, which sold out by the end of the night. We served wine, snacks and pastries from Petite Patisserie. A special thanks to our sponsors, CARE, LiveBooks, Synergy Communications, Kingston Technology and Bogen Imaging for making the opening such a success!
 Photographer Phil Borges' book, Women Empowered (Universe Publishing) was featured in the August issue of O Magazine, Oprah Winfrey's monthly magazine. You can find the article in the "Reading Room" section on p. 151. For more information about Phil Borges or Women Empowered, you can visit his website at www. philborges.com.
Institute for Photographic Empowerment
The USC Annenberg School for Communication's Center on Communication Leadership, its Center on Public Diplomacy and Venice Arts, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit youth media arts organization will launch the Institute for Photographic Empowerment. The Institute will highlight photographic empowerment projects from throughout the world that seek to give voices to otherwise unheard individuals, specifically from the developing world, through teaching documentary photography. For more information on the Insitute for Photographic Empowerment, you can visit their website at Joinipe.org.
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"Women of Courage" Book Launch
 Documentary photographer Katherine Kiviat and journalist Scott Heidler are launching their new book, Women of Courage: Intimate Stories from Afghanistan, (Gibbs Smith, Publisher). The book features photographs and stories of women in Afghanistan, from a presidential candidate to a schoolteacher, who are playing a major role in the changing social landscape of Afghanistan.
From the inside flap:
THE WOMEN OF AFGHANISTAN are breaking out of the darkness of oppression and creating change in their society to make a better tomorrow for themselves and their daughters. Women of Courage takes an intimate look at courageous women from all walks of life who are facing the future with hope despite their nation's long history of oppression and violence. With the fall of the Taliban, free elections, and a new constitution, the women of Afghanistan suddenly had freedoms that had long been kept from them. These women-a university student, a policewoman, a housewife, a photojournalist, a filmmaker, a politician, a paratrooper, an Olympic athlete, and many others-are taking those freedoms and working to ensure that all women throughout their country are afforded their constitutional rights, including education and economic empowerment. The compelling photographs in Women of Courage introduce you to these women and unfiltered interviews let you hear the voices of women who are literally transforming the world in which they live one day at a time. Listen to their stories in their own words and be inspired by their courage and optimism.
For more information about Scott or Katherine, visit their websites, www.katherinekiviat.com, or www.scottheiderreporting.com
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 Deviwo Projects releases "I Am the Only One Who Saw", photos and essays by Edward Chao.
This collection of photos and essays is by a twelve year old from Ghana, Eddie Chao, who has explored and reconstructed his world through a series of unique photo essays. All book proceeds benefit a scholarship fund for Eddie and other children living in his community.
Deviwo Projects is a collective of visual artists, writers and teachers from Ghana and the U.S. who seek to enable youth in Ghana with the skills to document, preserve and re-invent their own culture. They create workshops in the documentary arts, produce exhibitions, and generate scholarships for formal education.
For more information, visit www.deviwo.org
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 On 6 September 2007 nine of the world's leading documentary photographers will launch Noor, a new photo agency providing in high quality imagery to the international market.
Noor’s members are independent and concerned photographers producing in-depth visual reports on important social, political, environmental and cultural issues with a highly personal visual grammar.
Noor is: Samantha Appleton (United States), Jodi Bieber (South Africa), Philip Blenkinsop (Australia), Pep Bonet (Spain), Jan Grarup (Denmark), Stanley Greene (United States), Yuri Kozyrev (Russia), Kadir van Lohuizen (The Netherlands) and Francesco Zizola (Italy).
In a combined effort - and with the support and coordination of co-owner and managing director Claudia Hinterseer and associate editor Lotti Pronk – the agency will promote, sell and exhibit the work of its nine founding member photographers.
From 7 September 2007 onwards, visitors and customers will have access to www.noorimages.com where projects of the photographers are accessible and the online picture library for archival photography can be accessed.
For more information, visit www.noorimages.com
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